# 2017 Speeches ## expand\_more Sort **Grace Chen - "Show Up, Speak Up"** (advised by Diana Eck) January 24, 2017 [text](/file_url/792) [[{"fid":"1207741","view_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"height":"360","width":"640","class":"wysiwyg-placeholder media-element file-default"}}]] **Samarth Gupta - "Let's Grab A Meal"** (advised by Cassie Robertson) January 24, 2017 [text](/file_url/793) **Lauren Volpert - "Matzo Ball Soup For The Soul"** (advised by Kelly Miller) January 25, 2017 [text](/file_url/794) **James Bollinger - "Writing Home"** (advised by Brett Flehinger) January 25, 2017 [text](/file_url/795) **Claire Benoit - "The House of Being"** (advised by Brandon Terry) January 26, 2017 [text](/file_url/796) [[{"fid":"1193376","view_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"height":"360","width":"640","class":"wysiwyg-placeholder media-element file-default"}}]] **Ola Morehead - "Prizefighter"** (advised by Allie Feldberg) January 26, 2017 **Sophia Lugo - "How Long?"** (advised by Steve Coit) January 29, 2017 **Kevin Sani - "The Lessons of Twinship"** (advised by David Kim) January 29, 2017 [text](/file_url/798) **Delfina Martinez-Pandiani - "Exposed"** (advised by Brandon Terry) January 31, 2017 [text](/file_url/799) **Gaby Czarniak - "Fluidity and Fluency"** (advised by Sheggai Tamerat-Terry) January 31, 2017 **Elizabeth Hubbard - "Lost and Found"** (advised by Meghan Blumstein) February 1, 2017 [text](/file_url/800) **Matthew McCalla - "Boundless Gratitude: The Things I Learned From Being Loved"** (advised by William Doss Suter) February 1, 2017 **Michael Sanky - "My Speech"** (advised by Evan Price) February 2, 2017 **Henry Johnson - "Field Guide"** (advised by Daniel Adler) February 2, 2017 [text](/file_url/801) **Alex Raun - "Little Red"** (advised by Kelly Miller) February 7, 2017 **Juan Miramontes - "Sibling Rivalry"** (advised by Jonathan Bruno) February 7, 2017 **Flavia Cuervo - "More than Mojitos"** (advised by Caitlin Casey) February 8, 2017 [text](/file_url/802) **Taiga Abe - "Rubber Duck Introspection"** (advised by Michael Uy) February 8, 2017 **Tina Murphy - "When I Grow Up"** (advised by Jessica Yarmakovich) February 9, 2017 [text](/file_url/803) **Brooke Sweeney - "I Shouldn't Have So Many Shoulds"** (advised by Eli Schachar) February 9, 2017 [text](/file_url/804) **Hanson Tam - "What I Learned From My Sister"** (advised by Diana Eck) February 12, 2017 [text](/file_url/805) **Layla Joudeh - "For Jido"** (advised by Jonathan Bruno) February 12, 2017 **Matthew Miller - "Why I Want to Raise Sheep (and Other Dreams of Culinary Misadventure)"** (advised by Ben Levy) February 14, 2017 **Kristina Madjoska - "The Unbearable Lightness of Fighting for Freedom"** (advised by Paul Buttenwieser) February 14, 2017 [text](/file_url/806) **Melissa Joseph - "Bahay Ko"** (advised by Cassie Roberston) February 15, 2017 [text](/file_url/807) **Abbie Higgins - "Three Years Later"** (advised by H.H. Kang) February 15, 2017 [text](/file_url/808) **Leore Lavin - "Giving Shelter"** (advised by Allie Feldberg) February 16, 2017 [text](/file_url/809) **Amanda Jowell - "Not Knowing"** (advised by Jonathan Bruno) February 16, 2017 [text](/file_url/810) **Jeffery Durand - "Haiku for Happiness"** (advised by Marina Connelly) February 19, 2017 [text](/file_url/811) **Julian Salazar - "One Hundred Years of Plenitude"** (advised by Arjumand Masood) February 19, 2017 **Wayne Zhao - "Attraction to Attraction"** (advised by Daria Van Tyne) February 20, 2017 **Mary Grace Darmody - "Snow Tires and Miami Drivers"** (advised by Monica Bell) February 20, 2017 **Elias Tuomaala - "Citizen"** (advised by Ben Levy) February 21, 2017 [text](/file_url/812) **Raynor Kuang - "So How Does the Datamatch Algorithm Work Anyway?"** (advised by Michael Uy) February 21, 2017 [text](/file_url/813) **Pulkit Agarwal - "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"** (advised by Jonathan Fanton) February 22, 2017 [text](/file_url/814) **Catherine Li - "Shanghai, Undercover"** (advised by Steve Coit) February 22, 2017 **Adrian Horton - "Watching the Clock"** (advised by Gail Gilmore) February 23, 2017 **Matthew Casso - "Fights"** (advised by Sandy Alexander) February 23, 2017 [[{"fid":"1196381","view_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"height":"360","width":"640","class":"wysiwyg-placeholder media-element file-default"}}]] **Margaret Irving - "Home Is Where The Harvard Is"** (advised by Michael Uy) February 25, 2017 [text](/file_url/816) **Hope Ndhlovu - "Everything Goes in America"** (advised by Daniel Adler) February 25, 2017 **Andrew Hess - "Lessons from Behind Enemy Lines"** (advised by Kevin Connolly) February 26, 2017 [text](/file_url/817) **Alex Wang - "O Brother, What Art Thou?"** (advised by Michael Zuckerman) February 26, 2017 **Lawrence Wang - "The Act of Building with One's Own Mind"** (advised by Francisco Prado-Vilar) February 28, 2017 **Michael Uy - "31"** (advised by Sandy Alexander) February 28, 2017 **Michael Kikukawa - "Practicing Persistence"** (advised by Caroline Cox) March 1, 2017 **George Torres - "Contraptions"** (advised by Arthur Jaffe) March 1, 2017 [video](https://vimeo.com/206350251) **Kelsey O'Connor - "Husband of Great-Aunt of Husband of Sister-in-Law of Sister"** (advised by Caitlin Casey) March 2, 2017 **Ben Kelly - "Let It Grow"** (advised by Jonathan Bruno) March 7, 2017 **Makinde Ogunnaike - "Forever a Foreigner"** (advised by Brandon Terry) March 7, 2017 **Julian Nunally - "Turn Your Test Into Your Testimony"** (advised by Chavis Jones) March 8, 2017 **Khalid Tawil - "Finding Our Way"** (advised by Diana Eck and William Doss Suter) March 8, 2017 [video](https://vimeo.com/207671721)